If Gustav hits New Orleans as a category 5?

Question

are the people there more prepared than they were for Katrina or are we about to see more of the same?

Answer 1

in my opinion, the city hasnt fully recovered from Katrina, here in Florida it took a decade for us to really recover from Andrew.

i hate to say it but at CAT 5 or CAT 4 strength, it may be just more of what happened.  the levees from what i understand arent finished and the city is still below sea level, not much has changed.

Answer 2

From what I am seeing on the news, there are preparations/buses and trains evacuating people as of yesterday.  It appears that the government is being very proactive and making evacuation available to any one thats needs help evacuating.    Rescuers from my area (NY) are even on their way down to Louisiana/Mississippi as we speak.

Answer 3

I hope so.....Lets just hope they dont come back to Houston....Our crime rate skyrocketed when they came last time and it still hasnt gone down...I wish they would ALL go back home....I am for building a wall across I-10 to keep them out..lol.....The crooked NewOrleans government still hasnt fixed the levees

Answer 4

The evacuation IS more effective this time, and people are being moved to shelters well outside the area instead of to somewhere like the Superdome. It also means no one who wants to go will be left behind.

The non-assisted evacuation is also going well (despite accidents. etc.) and contra-flow will probably end Sunday afternoon.

Do realize that by normal standards the 2005 evacuation for Katrina was a huge success. At least 95% of the city's population (then 1,400,000) left before Katrina arrived. About half of those who did not leave went to the Superdome, which was the designated shelter. It was the other 2.5% that you saw trapped on roofs and stranded at the Convention Center.

However, 2.5% of 1,400,000 is still about 35,000 people - not counting the 30,000 at the Superdome.

The city's population now is between 1,250,000 and 1,300,000 and most of the people who did not evacuate for Katrina have not returned to the city. The more effective state-supervised evacuation plan has fewer people to move than were the case in 2005, and that helps

Answer 5

They are evacuating New Orleans right now. Hopefully they are more prepared this time. The effects of Katrina are still seen today, many people are still homeless because their homes were destroyed.

Answer 6

the local government keeps telling us that the levees should hold. there are some areas that are not protected by levees which, if the storm does come in the way they are thinking then coastal areas would receive water

Answer 7

If it hits as a 5 its all over. Those levees that have been finished (and not all have) are only built to withstand a cat 3. Katrina was only a Cat 3 and look what it did. Imagine what a 5 will do.